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The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…the cause of the next apocalypse. That is to say, they are human. And yet, time after time, it is their all-too-humanness that is the only thing that stands between the world and its end. No Good guarantees their victory, and victory usually seems impossible, but they fight anyway because that is what they have to do. In Buffy, the only guarantee is that defeating evil and saving the world, a lot, means that you’ll have to try to do it again when…

The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning

By Annika Brockschmidt

…to do so—it’s not for nothing that historians refer to Lyndon B. Johnson’s time in office as an “imperial presidency,” the theoretical framework coined by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger. Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the influence of the executive branch had grown considerably. This massive expansion of presidential authority was justified each time by the need for secrecy—even from Congress—in the name of national security. But Nixon…

Religious Leaders: Time to End Silence on Reproductive Justice

By Harry F. Knox

…us step, we pledge that ministers, pastors and rabbis all over the country will stand in their own pulpits and call his actions blessed. It is time for the silent to speak up on behalf of the invisible….

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…lsi Velasco-Sanchez feels cut off from her ancestral faith heritage and at times “not native enough,” she hasn’t stopped seeking that connection. In 2016, she joined the protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock reservation. She spent her time in the kitchen in the Hoopa camp where a small band of volunteers stood over gas stoves and served thousands. The native women she cooked alongside of saw her as their own, even if their ge…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…isonment for debt, and inmates kept in solitary confinement for years at a time or in filthy, unheated, and vermin-ridden cells. This was in the early 19th century, but the situation doesn’t sound so different from today’s correctional institutions. The number of mentally ill inmates is on the rise, as public psychiatric institutions lose funding. Buildings are overcrowded and under-maintained. Rehabilitation and substance-abuse programs are chron…

Hajj Journal: Part of the Process

By Amina Wadud

…C. Oh yeah, and I needed fingernail polish remover. It must have been some time before Ramadan when I last went for a pedicure. In that time, the nails had grown and been clipped so much, the tiny bit of color clung to the ends of the toenail like a French tip. But still it had to be removed. Here’s the thing: technically, the water from ablutions cannot reach the actual toenail (or fingernail, but I never wear color on my hands, it offsets my jew…

American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise

By Mary E. Hunt

…es. Watching this unsavory chapter of church history unfold, I am reminded of how batterers often return home with flowers to win back the women they have beaten. So the cycle starts again, with kind words and pledges to do better next time. But the battering (or “assault,” as Thomas C. Fox wrote this week in NCR) begins again. The time for serious change is dangerously overdue in Roman Catholicism: I refuse to be a bystander, and I encourage othe…

Insecto-Theology: A Wake for Our Planetary Commons

By Jacob J. Erickson

…s. We begin to reimagine the worlds around us and in us. In that spirit, a number of years ago hearing reports of the amassed creaturely dead, I began adding the names of endangered and extinct species to the All Saints remembrances in my own Christian practices. Larry and Jennifer, the Western Black Rhinocerous, and the Pyrenean Ibex…To call the memories of these losses forth, to honor them, awakens and imagines our connections across time and sp…

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction

By Gary Laderman

…ritual benefits…” Spiritual benefits? You can read the details yourself in Time or this Mother Jones piece, but bottom line is that the drug can induce transcendental, mystical experiences in volunteers who feel better and more fulfilled over time, with relatives and close friends claiming the individual also became “calmer, happier, and kinder.” Yes, it’s a rather limited study but the explicitly religious language suggests that this drug isn’t j…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…r. Tell truckers to coordinate by CB radio to blast Teruah all at the same time. The sounds of the shofar: Tekiah, a long blast. Shevarim, three long sounds. Teruah, nine staccato blasts. The shofar blower must [blow] three sets, three times. Finally there is tekiah gedolah: a very long blast. Teruah [is] Hebrew [for] shout or blast of war.” The Christian right’s interest in shofars taken to it’s strangest conclusion. Numerous others focus on the…